Oil prices soared more than four percent Friday and equities reversed early gains following news that the US had killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region.
The African Securities Exchanges Association has started a project that will link seven bourses on the continent by the first quarter of 2021 as part of efforts to increase trading in securities.
Former Deputy Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, Kweku Ricketts- Hagan has said the current escalation in the depreciation of the cedi is as a result of the collapse of confidence in the financial sector and invariably the economy as a whole.
The Bank of Ghana, BoG has urged Ghanaians and the business community to accept the new 100 and 200 cedi notes as legal tender in their daily business transactions.
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Standard Chartered Bank Ghana have appointed Kwabena Nifa Aning and Sheikh Jobe as Independent Non-Executive Director and Executive Director respectively, to the Board of the Bank with effective December 4, 2019.
The cedi has quickened the pace of depreciation against the US dollar in recent times, falling by an average of 0.93 per cent to the ‘greenback’ over the last four weeks, according to Bank of Ghana (BoG) data on the movement of the currency.
Ivory Coast and Ghana’s move to combat farmer poverty with a living income premium for their cocoa sales is being undermined by chocolate makers scaling down purchases and negotiating discounts on other parts of the price, sources said.
The Local Government Ministry has announced, the setting aside of some streets within Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions, as street markets for the Christmas trading.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concern about Ghana’s current status as a country at high risk of debt distress – a reference to countries where debt sustainability analyses (DSAs) show a protracted breach of debt and debt service thresholds.